(07-11-2023, 10:36 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(07-11-2023, 12:22 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I know what hyperbolic means, broseph. Lynchings weren't common in the 60's for anybody. There wasn't a huge disparity between blacks and whites of the lynchings that did occur. Every statement has implications, so you can't just throw out a line like, "Were Irish Americans being strung up in trees for being Irish in the mid-sixties," then pivot to make it seem like you're just asking an honest question about the Irish. You weren't. You were making an implication about black struggles in the 60's, and, more importantly, casually throwing out an idea that they were being hung from trees. Which they weren't.

I guess would be a good time to point out that 3 of them were shot, one was severely burned and died after identifying the people who set fire to his shop, and the other one was actually lynched in the 30's and survived... he died naturally in his 60's after becoming a successful artist. So, the scores' 2-2 in favor of racial harmony. Turns out, people are just haters. If you can't see how it's hyperbolic to suggest that blacks were being strung up from trees in the 60's, then that's on you, man.

It seems odd we're even having this conversation since I mostly agreed with you. All you had to do is admit to yourself you were probably being hyperbolic and just ignore my comment.

As to the OP talking about it, sure. Guess you could have been talking to him. Seemed like you were talking to me. I have adjusted my previous statement magically to make sense within this newfound context. *poof*

The comment was pointing out a disparity between asking for Irish reparations vs African American reparations.

Sorry you're "hung-up" on which decade the lynchings were most frequent. 
*rimshot* I'll be here all week - Cue the accusations of racism and tastelessness 

If I'd said "in the past century" instead of "the 60's" it would have made the point more accurately, but since Black people were still being killed for being Black in the 1960's and Irish Americans were not being killed for being Irish in 1960's America - my point was and is perfectly valid and completely void of hyperbole.

Sorry you're hung up on "when" these things happened. Since we're past the statute of limitations then I guess we don't have to worry about almost all the wrongs done to Native American Indigenous Persons since they happened before the Irish immigration. BTW, 3,446 blacks were "killed for being black" between 1882 and 1968 while over 30,000 Irish conscripts (you know, forced soldiers, almost like...slaves) were killed fighting for the Union. Not to mention the 1,297 whites lynched in that same period; among them clergy, politicians, and civil rights workers amenable to the cause. But that was over a hundred years ago, so it just doesn't matter. For the record, I'm angry about this stuff too. I want our minority populations to be equal, productive, and successful in our Country. But when people brush all whites as "privileged" or "oppressors" I'm going to push back, because the view of so-called privilege is far too broad and the history of racial strife apparently limited only to blacks in the United States.

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